Spotipy - set CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET

Question

Where do I go to set CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET so it's not stored in my python script? The Spotipy documentation says the following, but I can't figure out where I need to go to input these environment variables. Where do I set os.getenv?

    if not client_id:
        client_id = os.getenv('SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID')

    if not client_secret:
        client_secret = os.getenv('SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET')

    if not client_id:
        raise SpotifyOauthError('No client id')

    if not client_secret:
        raise SpotifyOauthError('No client secret')

Answer 1

On windows you can set your enviroment variables openning your cmd, change your directory to where your .py file is saved using cd C:\example\example then use SET SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=clientIDhere and SET SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=secretHere to set your variables.

Answer 2

That depends on what environment you're running in. Environmental variables are variables provided by the operating system, sitting outside the process you're calling them from. If you're in Linux, you would run something like:

export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=yourspotifyclientid
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=yourspotifyclientsecret

You can get more info on environmental variables on Wikipedia.